Pen and pencil holder.



PATENTED APR. 3; 1906.

SLCOTLER. PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION F ILED AUG. 7, 1905.

INVENTOR H 6 12 w '37, o W

TINTTED STATES PATENT FFTQE.

Specification of- Letters Patent.

Patented April 3, 1906.

Application filed August 7,1905. Serial No. 272,994-

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL CorLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen and Pencil Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to enable a fount ain-pen and a lead-pencil, as ordinarily constructed, to be carried side by side upon the clothing of a person with greater convenience and ease; to secure a more durable construction for holding said fountain-pen and lead-pencil, and one which will accommodate itself to pens and pencils of various sizes or thicknesses; to secure greater neatness and simplicity and strength of construction, and to obtain other advantages and results, some of which may be hereinafter referred to in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved fountain-pen or pencil holder and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate correspondingparts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved holder. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation. Fig. 4 is aside view; and Fig. 5 is a detail section taken at line at, Fig. 1.

In said drawings, 5 indicates the bodyplate of the device, which is struck up preferably from sheet-brass with a vertical center portion 6 and opposite lateral arms 7. Said vertical portion at its lower end is turned backward and provided with a pair of prongs 8, adapted to engage or enter the garment and prevent the withdrawal of the holdingpins 9, hereinafter referred to, from the garment when the pen or pencil is drawn out from its receptacle in the device. At the upper end of said vertical portion 6 is secured a pair of wire pins. These are preferably formed of a single piece of wire, doubled about midway of their ends, as at 10, and

soldered at their center to the back of the upper end of said vertical ortion, the said wire being bent to lie paral el with the pins and form a seat by means of which the said wire can be firmly soldered in position. Between the upper and lower ends of said bodyplate the same is integrally provided with the horizontal arms 7, which project laterally in opposite directions from the sides of the vertical portion 6, and are curved outwardly and backwardly, and then forwardly and toward the vertical center portion, and finally backwardly almost into engagement with said center ortion, as shown in Fig. 2, to form receptac es 11 for the pen and pencil, one of said receptacles 11 being lar er in diameter than the other to conform to t e variations usually found in the sizes of said pens and pencils. The free extremities of the said curved arms or horizontal parts 7 7 are provided with wire extensions 12, preferably soldered thereon, which are also curved, approximately concentric with the curvatures of the arms 7. Said wire extensions 12 pass through perforations 13, Fig. 5, formed in the vertical portion of the body-plate, and are thus adapted to slide freely therein to permit the resilient arms 7 to spring open and the receptacles 11 to be enlarged or reduced freely to accommodate the pen or pencil inserted therein. The said body material being resilient, the said lateral and horizontal arms of the body-plate will grasp the said pen and pencil and hold the same by frictional contact. The wire extensions 12, lying in the perforations, serve to prevent the free ends of the arms from being bent downward or upward abnormally upon the insertion or drawing out of the pen or pencil from its receptacle. The wire extensions are of a reduced width, being considerably less in width than the integral arms 7, and thus the free extremities of the arms 7 are adapted, should moderate pressure be brought thereon from the front while the receptacles 11 are empty, to press on the front of the vertical center portion 6, so that such pressure will not unduly close the receptacles or bend the arms at their bases, to the permanent injury of the device.

The ends of the wire extensions are preferably provided with heads 14 to prevent withdrawal of said extensions through the perforations.

Having thus described the invention, what i ICC herein described comprising a perforated, re s lient sheet-metal body having a center portion, lateral arms extending oppositely from opposite sides of said center portion and at the lower end of said body having prongs turned backward from said center portion, holding-pins 9, formed of a single piece of wire doubled midway of its length and bent near where it is doubled to form a seat to engage the upper end of said center portion, to which end said seat is fastened, the said lateral arms being curved forwardly, then out wardly and rearwardly, nearly into engagement with the front of said center portion, wire extensions fastened to said arms and extending through the perforations in said body and at their free extremities provided with heads adapted to prevent withdrawal through said body, substantially as set forth.

2. The improved pen and pencil holder herein described, consisting of a perforated body of resilient sheet metal, said body por tion provided with downwardly-extending pins adapted to enter the garment and with upwardly-inclined prongs adapted to prevent the withdrawal of said pins from said garment and having integrally formed thereon curved arms at opposite sides thereof, which integral arms extend oppositely, outwardly, and forwardly from, and then backwardly toward the front surface of the center part of said body, terminating a little short of said front surface, and wire extensions of reduced width attached to said arms and extending through the perforations in said body, the ends of the integral arms being adapted to press on said body, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved pen and pencil holder herein described, comprising a sheet-metal body portion provided at the top with downwardlyextending pins adapted to enter the garment and at the lower ends with upwardly-inclined prongs adapted to prevent the withdrawal of said pins from the garment when a pencil or pen is drawn from said holder, said body portion, having between its opposite ends, curved arms adapted to inclose the pen and pencil and hold the same by frictional contact, the body portions being perforated and the free extremities of said arms provided with reduced extensions which project through said perforations and arefree to slide therein.

4. The improved pen and pencil holder herein described consisting of a perforated body of resilient sheet metal, having integrally formed thereon curved arms at opposite sides thereof, which arms extend oppositely, outwardly and forwardly from, and then backwardly toward the front surface of the center part of said body, terminating a little short of said front surface, and wire extensions attached to said arms and extending through the perforations in said body, the extremities of said wire extensions being provided with heads preventing a withdrawal of said wire extensions from the body but permitting the Wire to slide in said perforations, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of July, 1905.

SAMUEL COTLER. Witnesses: CHARLES H. PELL, RUssELL M. EVERETT. 

